All For The Taking Lyrics

It was all for the taking all for the choosing

Little did I know it was the start of a movement

Saw what it took it was worth the commitment

Now when I wake up I have a certain jurisdiction

It's all me mama what you think about that

I knew it wasn't luck when it struck again and again

Now a friend is a friend and I don't trust new faces

Struggled with the thought of blowing up in new places

Took it up a notch shook it up and watched

Fresh vans I just took 'em out the box

Throwing hands with the hands on the clock

Showtimes the only time I plan and I plot

I stand in a padded room all day and night

And I write throw an alley-oop tryna get it right

When it clicks that's the moment they been waiting for

Behind the mic I am not the same person that you take me for

Modest versus cocky versus confident

I'm searching for the perfect words immersed in contradiction

Now I move a mile a minute left my conscience in the past

All my thoughts got twisted now it's time to relapse

To a better place kick it back and demonstrate

Whatever it takes for clarity I put it together carefully

It's me against me and that's the only comparison

I might never see the day I say it's fine to relax

It was all for the taking all for the choosing

Little did I know it was the start of a movement

Saw what it took it was worth the commitment

Now when I wake up I have a certain jurisdiction

It's all me mama what you think about that

I knew it wasn't luck when it struck again and again

Now a friend is a friend and I don't trust new faces

Struggled with the thought of blowing up in new places

I did a lot of soul searching I didn't find much

But I did find clues in the blues that I groove to

Not like I used to pay too much attention

I got nothing left to be doing what you do

It's voodoo glued to the cause and effect

And I lost some respect when I lost my connection

And talked like I knew what I wanted from the jump

Did a lotta soul searching and didn't find much

I'm setting the record for wrecking my reputation

My family asked me what's cracking I told 'em I started rapping

And strangers became stranger haters became haters

And later became the same people treating me like we're family

It's a dirty dozen left in the circle and they're left on alert when it gets real

Until I'm six feet deep in the dirt and asleep in the earth

Imma stay doing me and if I don't somebody else will

Tipped the scale the rictor scale my ex girls looking at me now

Like they chipped a nail

I been wild been foul but it's business still

Sicker than Benadryl or fentanyl

I been ascending to a higher place searching for a higher power

Driving down a one way road with unchanged goals

They can stick to what they know and what they're told

And watch the way I find it on my own but that's what they chose

It was all for the taking all for the choosing

Little did I know it was the start of a movement

Saw what it took it was worth the commitment

Now when I wake up I have a certain jurisdiction

It's all me mama what you think about that

I knew it wasn't luck when it struck again and again

Now a friend is a friend and I don't trust new faces

Struggled with the thought of blowing up in new places